When you think of pictures, what do you think of? Captions? Memories? Meaning? Something that explains the picture’s purpose? In Edward Said’s book “After the Last Sky”, he uses and explains photographs to convey a message to his readers about the life of palestinians. He said in his text, ¨Let us use photographs and a text, we said to each other, to say something that hasn’t been said about Palestinians¨ (4). The photographs explains all of the trials and struggles that Palestinians go through and how ¨they¨ are portrayed as ¨the other.¨ Since the creation of Israel in 1948, Palestinians have been robbed of their homeland and come into contact zone with different cultures. Mary Pratt Louise, describes contact zone as ¨cultures meet, clash,
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Showing the entitlement of that which was placed upon them, the depression, digression from their homeland, and the exile. In Gaza of 1979 a farm was using the labor of refugees, another young boy picture was captured there in a refugee camp. These refugee camps display them being in exile. They are placed here because they have nowhere else to go and the dominant discourse get manual labor out of them. In addition to not being able to be in their homeland, they are placed in camps that get destroyed, reconstructed, and then re-destroyed again. An example of this is a camp called Ein-el-Hilwe. The little kitchen garden just near the encampment of Bedouin and the officials that collects messages from the relations of the refugees for the International Red Cross. In 1984, Said visited the former mayor of Jerusalem and his wife, living in exile in Jordan, in that picture were an example of two people who bore the faces of disaster. This was something that all of the parents of 1948 had to bare. “Our children know no such thing past” (21). Every community that they’ve had, has been destroyed, depleted, or nothing of the Palestinian life had been recorded nor
Showing the entitlement of that which was placed upon them, the depression, digression from their homeland, and the exile. In Gaza of 1979 a farm was using the labor of refugees, another young boy picture was captured there in a refugee camp. These refugee camps display them being in exile. They are placed here because they have nowhere else to go and the dominant discourse get manual labor out of them. In addition to not being able to be in their homeland, they are placed in camps that get destroyed, reconstructed, and then re-destroyed again. An example of this is a camp called Ein-el-Hilwe. The little kitchen garden just near the encampment of Bedouin and the officials that collects messages from the relations of the refugees for the International Red Cross. In 1984, Said visited the former mayor of Jerusalem and his wife, living in exile in Jordan, in that picture were an example of two people who bore the faces of disaster. This was something that all of the parents of 1948 had to bare. “Our children know no such thing past” (21). Every community that they’ve had, has been destroyed, depleted, or nothing of the Palestinian life had been recorded nor